What non-running competitive hobbies do you have?

Ballroom dancing

Soccer

Cycling

Chess

Texas Hold'em

Billiards

Well rounded..... wrote:

Stretching

ice bathing

Weightlifting

Massage therapy

Napping

Foam rolling

Competitive foam rolling. Now there's a sport I want to see.

Comicon cosplays

Ma stir bation

Heart burn and acid reflux

Stress

Poverty

Budgeting

Staying in the black: more instagram followers than following

Resume building

Credit building

Professional networking

Catching up with the past

Outthinking competitors

Coming up with the next big thing

Joe the dog's owner wrote:

What type of non-running competitive hobbies do you guys have? Ran D1 in college, and I'm at a point where I know I'll never be as fast as I was, and thus I'm ready to move on to a new challenge.

What competitive outlets besides running do you have?

I'm thinking golf, maybe a basketball league, sand volleyball?

Wrestling

Ju jitzu

Boxing, kickboxing, MMA

Rock climbing

Swimming

Investment banking

Break dancing

Tinder

Spreadsheets

Snapchat

Three gun.

Not that I'm good at any of these but here are things I've tried competing at.

33 married with no kids. I stopped running "competively" at 29 after starting in middle school.

Online trivia league

Cycling (road, mountain bike and cyclocross)

Nordic skiing

Ultimate frisbee (I stopped playing competitively because I didn't like the frantic high intensity games with hockey style subbing. I much prefer playing when teams don't have subs and the play is more at a soccer style pace.)

I also play classical guitar at a decent level and am learning piano.

Golf okay for awhile wrote:

I tried golf for awhile, but it's a very frustrating sport and takes a lot of time and practice and you still might suck. To be competitive, you have to put so much more time than running, then you realize you're not going to be good as guys who started as a kid playing all the time, and after awhile, you realize, what's the point of spending all of this time playing this game when you could be doing other things. God, I hate golf.

So you are rubbish at golf

Rumination

Remorse

Regret

Getting stuff published in literary journals.

pretzel man wrote:

Home owner.

10/10

Mushroom hunting.

It's like a treasure hunt with a countdown clock. You may never see your competition, maybe only the cut of their knife...

this is nuts. I'm getting ready for my 4th half marathon, but my hobby band is taking off. We're a 4 piece country/punk unit. Played a bar until midnight yesterday. Great fun, but I missed my 8 mile run this a.m.

I have to make a choice here...

Picked up Nordic skiing post-college and was arguably better at that than running. Masters ++ now (old), and have sort of retired from the skiing and starting to become a slogger with the running, so I may pick up the skiing again. It's easier on the body, great for cardio and muscle strength, and gives a break from running.

Nate Dawg voice "Smoke weed everyday"

Backpacking, hiking, fishing

I also like to build my own desktop PCs

Rr3

My non running hobby is hobby-jogging.

Go

Geocaching

Go-cart racing